Join us for three days dedicated to Cassandra at Apache Software Foundation's flagship conference "Community Over Code" happening in Minneapolis from September 11-14, 2025. This event is the great opportunity to learn from project contributors, connect with fellow practitioners, and explore the future of Cassandra together.
The program will span a wide range of topics, including new features in Cassandra, operational best practices, performance improvements, data modeling techniques, and emerging use cases such as analytics, AI, and cloud-native deployments. Check the full agenda below: Friday, September 12, 2025 10:20 am Auto Repair in Apache Cassandra (Andy Tolbert, Jaydeepkumar Chovatia) 11:10 am Imagining the next 10 years of Cassandra (Patrick McFadin) 12:00 pm Ensuring Cassandra Operational Excellence at Netflix (Cheng Wang, Joshua Lopes) 12:40 pm Lunch 2:20 pm Accord Transactions: Missing Guide for Developers and Operators (Alex Petrov) 3:10 pm What's New in CEP-45: Mutation Tracking and Reconciliation (Abe Ratnofsky) 3:50 pm Break 4:10 pm Contributing to Cassandra: Journeys from Newcomer to PMC (Cheng Wang, Bernardo Botella Corbi, Jordan West, Dinesh Joshi, Ekaterina Dimitrova) 5:00 pm Running Apache Cassandra in Kubernetes: hands on with K8ssandra (Alexander Dejanovski, Michael Burman) 6:20 pm Birds of a Feather Saturday, September 13, 2025 10:20 am Witness Replicas: Reducing Storage Costs in Apache Cassandra (Scott Andreas) 11:10 am Living with Accord (Ariel Weisberg) 12:00 pm Apache Cassandra Analytics 1.0: Unlocking Real-Time Insights at Scale (Doug Rohrer) 12:40 pm Lunch 2:20 pm How CQL runs on Accord (Ariel Weisberg) 3:10 pm Cassandra backups made easy with Medusa and Kubernetes (Aaron Ploetz) 3:50 pm Break 4:10 pm Performance Improvements & Upgrade Challenges: Bloomberg’s Road to Apache Cassandra 5.0 (Andres Beck-Ruiz, William Nguyen) 5:00 pm Mastering Storage Attached Indexes: Transforming Cassandra Data Modeling (Caleb Rackliffe) Sunday, September 14 2025 10:20 am Apache Cassandra Constraints (Bernardo Botella Corbi) 11:10 am The Road Ahead: Next steps for Cassandra Sidecar post v0.1 (Saranya Krishnakumar, Francisco Guerrero) 12:00 pm How Cassandra Empower AI and Knowledge Graph Storage with Scale (Yichen Wei) 12:40 pm Lunch 2:20 pm Cassandra as a Cloud-Native System of Record: Unlocking the Big Data Ecosystem with Modular APIs (Josh McKenzie) 3:10 pm Handling Large Blobs in Apache Cassandra CDC with Kafka and Object Storage Integration (Bernardo Botella Corbi) 3:50 pm Break 4:10 pm Efficient export with Cassandra Analytics (Serban Teodorescu) 5:00 pm Life is better,Since we choose right keys for Cassandra Home (Gokul Prabagaren) Learn more and register at: https://communityovercode.org/registration/ Cheers! Paulo
